High School Students Donate Proceeds from Poetry Anthology to Worcester Together Fund
Gifts of all shapes and sizes helped the Greater Worcester Community Foundation and its partners raise more than $10 million from residents and organizations across Worcester County. Here is one story of a donation sparked by the writings of high school poetry students in the era of COVID-19.
Over the summer, the Foundation received a note from Aaron Stephenson, a teacher and academic partnership coordinator at Worcester Academy, accompanying a $400 donation to the Worcester Together fund. In April, national poetry month, inspired by Juan Matos, Worcester’s poet laureate, among other notable writers, the students composed prose in Spanish which Stephenson collected. “Poetry for a Cause” is a more-than-220-page collection of odes, remembrances, and reflections.